Eastern Quotes

298 Eastern quotes by 271 unique authors

The late British-born philosopher Alan Watts, in one of his wonderful lectures on eastern philosophy, used this analogy: "If I draw a circle, most people,… — Eric Weiner
â€¦the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special… — Richard Dawkins
I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human. — Malala Yousafzai
Match me such marvel, save in Eastern clime, A rose-red city'half as old asTime'! — Unknown Author
It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight. — Rudyard Kipling
As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is crucial to both… — Jerry Brown
I like places where you can dance to crazy music, like Bedlam or Eastern Bloc in the East Village. — Nicola Formichetti
I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of… — Sufjan Stevens
My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our… — Bryan Stevenson
When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University. — Julia Bacha
Chaga is significant in ethnomycology, forest ecology, and increasingly in pharmacognosy. Its long-term human use and cultural eastern European and Russian acceptance should awaken serious… — Paul Stamets
I am Dominican American. My father was born and raised in the U.S. and his heritage is German and Eastern European, and my mother hails… — Monica Raymund
I do fairly represent Middle Eastern women. — Shohreh Aghdashloo
North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989. — Douglas Coupland
To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He… — Delmore Schwartz
Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole state of Virginia,… — Lee Smith
I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941. — F. Sionil Jose
Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life. — F. Sionil Jose
Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I… — Hamdi Ulukaya

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